Permissions are essential in a multi-user system where users have different tasks and roles. OpenCms features an advanced permission system. You can group users, assign roles to them and adjust permissions on each resource in the VFS. You can even make up various organizational units to decentralize user management and you can also decide for your explorer types which user can see, read or write content of that type.

The topics listed here provide background on all the facets of permissions in OpenCms.